Home Remedy for Acne

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There is no good reason your acne treatment has to lie exclusively in the hands of the dermatologist. There are many useful home remedy for acne, you can help relieve pain with simple home remedies and achieve and maintain a clean look. Let us look at some tried and tested home remedies for acne. It is worth noting that while these remedies may not work for everyone many have found success with them.

Your Diet, Food And Drink
Drinking a good amount of water is the key to hydrated and clear skin. This is not just suitable for acne but can be applied to many skin conditions. It is important to include a good amount of vitamins and minerals in your daily food. This enhances the effect of the home remedy for acne, you decide to try. Regular exercise is also a good way to keep skin clear and hydrated.

Using A Lemon-Rose Mix Properly To Clear Up Your Acne
This is a very good natural home remedy for acne that can be very effective. What you need to do is to mix lemon extract with an equal quantity of rose water and apply it to the affected area. The next step is to leave it there for 20 to 30 minutes, and then wash it off with clean water. If you apply this home remedy you will see a clear improvement in your skin’s condition after around 15 days of use.

Toothpaste The Teenagers Favorite
You may find it hard to believe that toothpaste is a popular home remedy for acne but it has been the secret of many teenagers for years! The best way to use it is if swelling resulting from the acne is causing you pain and discomfort, apply a little toothpaste (not gel, paste) to the pimples before going to bed for the evening, when you wake up the next day you will find the swelling is much reduced.

Using Mint As A Remedy
You may have heard of this one before, the proper way to do it is to extract juice from fresh mint leaves then apply it to the acne-affected area of the skin/body daily, it is best to do this just before you go to bed. This is also great on eczema, insect-stings, and scabies. The other popular way to use mint as a home remedy for acne is to mix the mint juice with a little turmeric powder. Now apply this mixture to the affected area and leave on for 15 to 30 minutes before washing with clean, tepid water.

Garlic, Not To Be Used Before A Night Out!
If you can put up with the rather pungent smell of fresh garlic then garlic can help to relive acne, but you will not be eating it! What you need to do is crush a couple of fresh garlic cloves into a paste and smear it on the acne-affected area twice daily, preferably after you have been out! Rubbing fresh garlic on pimples also works to remove them without leaving any marks.

Vinegar And Salt
Surprisingly, vinegar mixed with a bit of salt also serves as a home remedy for acne, not to mention a great addition to a plate of chip’s! (Fries to some). The way to use this is to apply the salty vinegar solution by gently massaging it into the acne affected area. Then allowing it a few minutes to do it’s job before washing it off with water.

Prevention Techniques With Cucumber
A good way to prevent acne is to use cucumber. This is best blended well into a paste and when used properly will keep the skin fresh and prevent acne from occurring. The most effective way to use the cucumber paste is to apply it all over your face and leave it on for an hour or two before rinsing off with water.

Honey-Cinnamon Paste As A Remedy
This is an easy to make remedy for acne. How you make it is to add a teaspoon of cinnamon powder to 3 tablespoons of honey, then mix well to form a paste. Once you have made the paste apply it to your pimples before going to bed at night then when you wake the next morning wash off with tepid water. This home remedy for acne works best when you do this daily for two weeks, after which you will have clean and clear skin.

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Steps to Organized Writing for Children

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After your children are writing sentences, teach them about paragraphs. Paragraphs are the key to organized writing. Each paragraph should contain one main idea or thought, and a topic sentence that sums up that thought in a nutshell. The paragraph should also contain supporting sentences that explain or supplement the leading idea in the topic sentence.

Here is how you could do this with your children:

1) Tell your students to write a rough draft composition (about one or two pages long). Emphasize that their work will be rewritten after they learn a new writing technique. This composition can be about a book read, an experience, a trip or perhaps even be an original piece of fiction.

2) Next, perhaps the next day, have your children circle, highlight, underline or bold (if using a word processor) the sentences that are most important. These are the topic sentences. In a handwritten one page essay, there should be approximately two to five topic sentences. You could use a different colored highlighter or pencil for each paragraph.

3) Then, the supporting sentences need to be gathered together with each topic sentence. Have your students highlight or circle the supporting sentences and then draw arrows or lines to the circled topic sentence, which may also be highlighted. Change colors for each paragraph.

4) Rewrite into paragraphs, placing each topic sentence with its supporting sentences. Topic sentences can be anywhere in the paragraph, but are usually at the beginning.

5) Organize the paragraphs by thinking what topic should come first, second and so on. Rewrite.

After doing this exercise a few times, your children’s writing will become far more organized, even their first drafts!

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The Mythical Slim Zone

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I just drove past a gym that was advertising group-exercise classes like this:

‘Small classes, lots of fun, no mirrors.’

No mirrors?

Why on earth is that a selling point?

Sure, mirrors aren’t necessary… but why would their absence be seen as part of sensible marketing strategy? Something to be advertised?

Maybe for the same reason that people don’t want to know their weight or their body-fat percentage when I assess them.

“Don’t tell me, don’t tell me” people say to me as they reluctantly stand on the scales with their eyes shut. “But you weigh what you weigh right?” “Yeah but I don’t wanna know.” “Why not?” “I’ll get depressed.”

So I tell them their weight and they get angry at me. Too funny. Nasty Craig.

“Don’t get grumpy at me… I didn’t do that to your body.”

When it comes to reality, we’re experts at avoiding it. I’ve written a post on ‘head-in-the-sand-itis’ before but it seems that we may be heading into an epidemic. A pandemic even.

Maybe we’re there already.

It amuses me that a business can send out this message: “Exercise with us and you won’t have to look at your fat selves in the mirror” “Yep, sign me up!”

I think some of us should be surrounded by mirrors twenty four-seven until we stop deluding ourselves and start to get proactive.

I’m not a fan of mirrors in gyms for vanity reasons but they are valuable for: 1) Teaching correct exercise technique and 2) Keeping us grounded.

“Oh yes… (in a feeble, pathetic voice), but I find it so painful to look at myself in a mirror, it hurts so much.”

Really?

Well, wait for your first heart-attack; you might rethink your definition of pain. And wait until your pancreas is so shot that you have to medicate every day for the rest of your life to manage your self-induced diabetes… then we’ll chat.

A little short-term emotional discomfort now doesn’t remotely compare to the world of hurt you’re gonna endure if you don’t change your mindset, your habits and your lifestyle.

No melodrama, just honesty. It is what it is.

As I always say to my audiences “I can tell you what you wanna hear, or I can tell you the truth… you can get offended, defensive and precious… or you can get busy changing your reality.”

I actually tell people to go home, take all their clothes off and take a really good look at themselves in the mirror from all angles. Slowly. Preferably take photos as well. Why? Because it’s reality, that’s why.

It’s you. It’s not some computer-generated future fat version of you, it’s you right now. Deal with that, toughen up, get over the self-pity (it’s annoying and achieves nothing) and then you will start to see results quickly. Real change.

Our physical reality doesn’t usually align with psychological reality. In other words, it’s almost impossible for you to be objective about you.

Over the years I have taken thousands of ‘before’ photos of people (front, side and rear) before they start their weight-loss/fitness endeavour. Invariably they are stunned when they see the pictures.

Why are they so shocked? Because when it comes to their body, they live in some alternative reality; The Slim Zone. The one where they look forty pounds lighter.

Amazingly, people always ask me to refrain from showing the photos to anyone else because on some level they believe that somehow the photos are worse than the ‘in the flesh’ reality.

“See me standing here in my workout gear but don’t look at that photo we took five minutes ago (in the same clothes) ’cause I’m so much slimmer in person.” “I don’t really look like that photo.”

Weird.

I know that I may sound harsh to some of you and I know my approach and philosophy won’t sit well with everyone, that’s okay. But twenty five years of going around in circles with people about the same issues and having the same conversations (often with the same people) will make you a little practical and matter-of-fact. Okay, blunt.

I care more about your heart, arteries, lungs and overall physical health than I do about telling you what you want to hear; what’s comfortable for you. I’m not really about popularity, I’m about change. Results.

I know I could write more reader-friendly, politically-correct content but I would be compromising what I believe and watering down an important message. So blunt Craig it is.

I’m not interested in fluffing someone’s emotional pillow or propping up their poor self-esteem for five minutes. I’m interested in their long term physical health. I’m interested in the truth of the situation.

I’m interested in genuine, forever (never going back) amazing, physical change. It’s very possible but we continue to rationalise, justify and find new and exciting ways to sabotage our own goals and perpetuate our misery. We consistently waste our potential. And we continue to let our mind get in the way of our body.

We choose to inhabit the mythical Slim Zone.

Yep, I care about people’s feelings and emotional state and yes, I factor them into every interaction with every person… in fact, I work on the premise that getting in shape is largely an emotional process. And Yes, I was a fat kid, so I get ‘it’.

However… I won’t be getting rid of the mirrors in my gym any time soon.

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